KarthGalin

How do you motivate yourself to fix your mod setup? About this time of year I often get the urge to climb mountains, slay dragons, and sit in hot springs. Then I realize Steam (despite all efforts) updated Skyrim behind my back at some point and an unknown portion of 238 active .esps (+SKSE and so on) need updating just to kind of get back to where I was in, I think, 2014. Which was all I really wanted. What motivated you? Are there some awesome new (used very loosely) mods that will run on a slightly updated potato? Ambitious old mods that made it out of beta in spite of all probability?

I'm trying to give NWN2 another go but my links are dead, I'm rusty with both 3.5 and NWN2's changes to it, and spoiled by games where mods play together more easily. I think what I could use most is a list of the really important mods/tools. Bugfixes, fixes for things that work stupid and/or are worthless in NWN2, the best/most essential tools for merging mods, etc., maybe even things that you like so much that you think they should have been in the game. I've got my own list going, but with the fragmented sources of all this stuff and how much work it might be to make things play nice I'm not very confident in said list. Any suggestions? Links are nice but not necessary unless the source is really obscure or the name's ambiguous. Module suggestions wouldn't make me cry, either, but I probably won't get around to those for a while. Edit: probably should've put this in Modtalk. Too many things on my mind. :/

While I agree that some perks are in odd places, others are bloody worthless, and I think dumbing-down the stats/skills/perks system is a step backwards, Nerd Rage being under Intelligence seems to fit in my personal, real-life experience. People I have been able to witness in emergency situations react with respect to their training or lack thereof. In perfectly avoidable car accidents, folks that aren't geeky enough to know anything about the physics of automobiles freak out and hit stuff - the nerdy types find an 'out' from the situation. Likewise with other accidents and nasty situations that I've seen. Those who are intelligent/curious/nerdy, in that moment where the brain either goes into overdrive or locks up, tend towards going into overdrive. All the more so because the 'nerdy' type tends to hold back a bit most of the time. I will say that I don't think it belongs at 10 intelligence other than possibly for balance purposes in the unmodified game on higher difficulties.

For those who think the frequent Fallout 4 updates are some conspiracy against our beloved script extender folks - if I'm not mistaken, all Bethesda would really need to do to stop them forever is send them a DMCA notice and/or threaten to sue. With my dear country's crazy software copyright/reverse engineering/etc. laws (thanks decade of 2000-2010!) I'm pretty sure Bethesda could legally stomp all over ianpatt, behippo, and plb. Why would Beth want to, though? The SE team is white hat all the way and effectively contributes to development of patches for current games & content for future games and DLC. If I dug into the history of Script Extender mods through Morrowind there is no telling how many major game features and improvements I'd find that were preceded by work done using the various script extenders. Bethesda simply has trouble making their very complex games that use a dated, highly modified engine, work like they want with two proprietary machines, the vast array of possible PC hardware, and the DLCs they want to release. I can't say I blame them too much - they could do better, sure, but they have to work within the many restrictions of their corporate environment.